Career
He was elected alderman for Bishopsgate ward on 23 September 1658. He was treasurer of the Levant Company from 1659 to 1661. He was Master of the Skinners Company in 1661 and was one of the court assistants from 1661 to 1662.
He was re-elected Member of Parliament for Heytesbury in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679.
He was Auditor from 1662 to 1664 and Deputy-Governor of the Levant Company from 1662 to 1671. In 1665 he became Deputy-Governor of the East India Company until 1667.
He was one of the court assistants from 1671 to 1672 and became Governor of the Levant Company in 1672 until 1673. In 1673 he was Governor of the Russia Company and remained one of the court assistants from 1673 until 1678.
Jolliffe died at the age of 66
Jolliffe married a daughter of Walter Boothby (Alderman in 1652).
Another daughter, Mary, married Benjamin Jolliffe of Cofton Hall, Worcestershire. Her son John Jolliffe (1697–1771) was the first of several generations of Jolliffes to control the parliamentary borough of Petersfield.
